40. I don't want Langdon to bleed

Before Langdon walked out, he stared coldly at those who looked at him strangely.

The students probably finally remembered that he was a duke, and all looked away guiltily.

Because the emperor vigorously suppressed the power of the nobility, raised the status of magicians, and even secretly stuffed private goods in the textbooks, in the Imperial School of Magic, the origins of the students were actually downplayed.

Unless an unforgivable act was committed against the nobles, even if it is a commoner, the school will generally do its best to keep the students safe, and even the emperor will come forward when necessary.

But after all, many students are commoners. Even if they were tested by the church for their magical talents when they were young, and they are scheduled to enter the Imperial School of Magic, many people will be shy when facing real nobles.

Only a few people who have been pampered and spoiled since childhood, and their family members kept saying "my family treasure will become a great magician in the future", can maintain their arrogance in front of the nobles.

...But Langdon couldn't stop people from watching his excitement. After all, everyone is the "future of the empire."

Prepared for the worst in his heart, Langdon slowly walked across to Lilica, holding his sword.

I hope Lilica doesn't go too far.

Compared to Langdon's tense alertness, Lilica looked much more relaxed.

She slowly drew out her sword, tilted her head slightly, and said expressionlessly, "We...it seems like we haven't fought each other for a long time."

Langdon didn't understand that she obviously didn't like him, but she showed a familiar attitude in front of the public, and she was very cautious when answering: "It seems to be so."

After Lilica was brought back to the Duke's house by his mother, he trained Lilica as a guard, and asked Langdon's swordsmanship teacher to teach Lilica at the same time, and told her to protect Langdon in the future.

So in the swordsmanship class, Lilica often practiced with Langdon.

The difference is that both of them held small and blunt wooden swords back then, but now they hold real swords that can hurt people.

I have to say that Langdon's mother is very good at seeing people. Lilyka is indeed very talented in martial arts. She has caught up with Langdon's progress not long after learning, and her attitude gradually hesitated during the duel practice.

"What if Langdon is hurt?"

At that time, Lilica's appearance was the same as now, she still looked like a twelve or thirteen-year-old loli.

The biggest difference is probably that she looked at Langdon very seriously at that time, with a feeling of concentration and persistence, but now she is always erratic, and rarely meets Langdon's eyes.

Little Langdon also had a good relationship with Lilica at the time. Hearing what Lilica said, he immediately patted his chest and said, "I'm a man, so a little injury is nothing."

"...But, I don't want Langdon to bleed."

"It's okay, Lilica didn't mean to hurt me, and if I don't practice properly, I can't become stronger. I can't just let Lilica protect me in the future, right? I want to protect Lilica too..."

Upon hearing this, Flora, who was sitting bored in the shade of a tree knitting a scarf, immediately stood up pretending to be angry, and threatened to cut up the scarf given to Little Langdon in her hand, jokingly.

"Does Langdon only want to protect Lilica? You have to think carefully before speaking! Otherwise, you won't be able to wear the scarf I knitted this winter!"

The nanny participated enthusiastically, pretending to wipe away her tears: "Oh, I'm really old, the young master can't think of me at all..."

"How could it be!" Little Langdon hurriedly served the water, "Of course I also want to protect Luo Er and the nanny...well, and my sister!"

Helena, who had already started the teaching of the noble lady, took the rare time to come to visit little Langdon today, and couldn't help showing a gentle smile on her increasingly cold face.

"Thank you, I will protect Langdon as well."

Because Lilica's posture after drawing the sword aroused memories of the past, Langdon uncontrollably recalled some old events from many years ago.

At that time, everyone had a good relationship, and everyone, regardless of their status, was like his family, so even if he could only see his parents during meals, he would not feel lonely.

...But why, did it become like this?

Although he knew that people would change, even he himself was not as naive as he was when he was a child, but he really couldn't understand what made the relationship between them deteriorate to such an extent.

Lilica's sudden attack left Langdon no room for grief. He subconsciously raised his hand to block and escaped the blow.

Although it has been several years since she left the Stuart family, the swordsmanship that Lilica uses now is still based on the swordsmanship taught by the swordsmanship teacher of the Stuart family. With every move, Langdon is full of both. sense of sight.

But after all, Langdon is very familiar with Lilica's moves, and knows that she is actually releasing water - Lilica's petite figure does not affect her strength, and even makes her move more agile. If she wants, the process of his parry, Lilica has been able to make more than a dozen moves, and it is impossible for him to dodge.

Although he didn't understand why Lilica suddenly showed kindness to him at this time, Langdon still focused on fighting, and gradually regained the feeling he had when fighting Lilica, and even predicted Lilica's trajectory, and directly After throwing the sword, intercept and turn around, and then catch the sword with a backhand behind the back and turn the wrist to block.

This set was executed so smoothly, the visual effect was so handsome that the students onlookers forgot Langdon's identity, and couldn't help applauding.

Langdon was also a little excited, for a moment he even forgot about the weird relationship between himself and Lilica, just like when he was a child, he looked for Lilica's eyes with a smile, hoping to gain the approval of his "companion".

Lilica's eyes are very pure black, and no light can shine in. At a glance, there is only bottomless darkness.

She is usually absent-minded, unwilling to look at people with straight eyes, and always looking behind people or other places.

But during the fight, probably out of excellent fighting awareness, the moment Langdon caught her eyes, she also looked back at Langdon reflexively.

The rich jewel-like blue eyes meet the deep abyss-like black eyes.

A circle of red light suddenly appeared around the edge of the black pupils, and an uncontrollable killing intent burst out suddenly.

In the next second, Langdon was knocked to the ground by Lilica whose movements were suddenly several times faster.

Lilica knelt on Langdon's waist with her tender knees. Her petite body leaned forward, holding the sword in both hands. The sharp blade directly brushed Langdon's neck and penetrated into the ground next to her. Oozing from Langdon's neck.

Lying on the ground, feeling the pain in his abdomen that was hit just now, and feeling the cold touch of the long sword against his skin, he slowly opened his eyes and looked at Lilica who was oppressing him.

If he didn't dodge fast enough, the sword would not just slash his neck, but more likely blind his eyes.

"...This is class, Lilica."

Langdon tried to slow his beating heart.

Lilica nodded as if nothing had happened, stood up and put away her sword.

Langdon touched his injured neck, stood up, and walked slowly towards the frightened and quiet classmate.

"...But, I don't want Langdon to bleed. ""

""It's okay, Lilica didn't mean to hurt me...""

Langdon closed his eyes.

it's already over.

Lilica just now really wanted to kill him.

[ps: there will be updates at night]

41. Do you hate me now? (monthly ticket plus update)

Although Langdon was injured, none of the students onlookers thought it was a big deal.

What happened to the duke?Isn't it normal to get injured in martial arts class?It was already agreed when I enrolled, if I can't accept it, I will drop out of school!

Especially when Lilica found a legitimate reason to "test the student's level" at the beginning, which would lead to...

"Duke Stuart! You were really amazing just now!"

The classmates who didn't see Lilica's murderous intent couldn't help but come forward to flatter Langdon.

Langdon: "…Thank you."

In the eyes of these students, Lilyka probably partnered with him in an exhibition match, and then Lilyka defeated the students as a teacher, in order to achieve the dual purpose of showing the charm of swordsmanship and showing her own strength.

The same thing happened to the previous saber technique teacher when he was in class for the first time, but it wasn't Langdon who was on the stage at the time. The student was injured more severely than Langdon, but he didn't respond, and even became a saber technique teacher. the blow.

Although the involved Langdon felt that his life was threatened, it might be difficult to get Lilica out of school just by relying on this slight sword wound, and the witnesses and classmates who didn't understand what happened—not to mention Lily. The card was forced into the school by the emperor, and Langdon knew that there was little hope after thinking about it.

Having said that, he still didn't understand how he had offended Lilica. It wouldn't be the emperor's order for Lilica to kill him, right?

Although the emperor has been displeased with the four great dukes' houses for a long time, he probably wouldn't make it so obvious...

After Lilica and Langdon finished dueling, she assumed a teacher's posture, demonstrated a set of sword skills, and then let the students imitate it.

When the students practiced, Langdon didn't follow along. Instead, he asked for leave to find a medical kit in the props room, and applied medicine to his neck injury.

It is a pity that the medicine seems to have been used up before, and no one came to fill it up. He could only wrap it with a bandage, and then went out to continue the class.

Lilica was correcting the posture of the others when Langdon returned.

Even if other teachers didn't use their hands to correct, at least they used scabbards, but Lilica directly pulled out the sword and put it under a student's arm. The poor student had to lift his arm up to avoid injury. Until the posture is standard.

...Great, with this rough teaching style, now no one thinks his neck injury is a big deal.

Fortunately, Langdon had a foundation in swordsmanship, so he didn't need Lilica to correct him, so he escaped a catastrophe.

After the fencing class ended, Langdon planned to skip the next class, so after returning the sword to the props room, he couldn't wait to leave.

But as soon as he went out, he saw Lilica standing there.

Lilyka's thin body blocked the door, she lowered her head without looking at Langdon, but asked in a nonchalant tone, "Langdon, do you want to go home?"

Under the quiet attention of the surrounding students, Langdon didn't get entangled with Lilica about the hurt just now... After all, the real entanglement was that he had no manners. Anyway, the emperor would definitely not let Lilica have an accident, so why should he bother himself.

"Well, please let me go."

Lilica did not move away, but still blocked the door: "Your injury needs to be treated...let me help you."

Langdon touched the bandage on his neck, and indeed it felt a little damp from just now. There should be blood oozing out... The wound looked small, but it was quite bleeding.

When they were kids, if Langdon got hurt at the end of fencing lessons, Lilica would come to Langdon worriedly and say things like that.

Even Lilica's movements were the same, she lowered her head as if guilty, not daring to look at him.

Langdon in the past would of course readily agree, but now...

In front of everyone, he still couldn't help stabbing her: "You are quite good at attacking yourself... But no need, there is no medicine here, I just go home and deal with it."

Lilica's movements seemed to freeze for a moment, but she stepped aside in the next second.

Langdon didn't want to see Lilica again, and couldn't wait to squeeze away from Lilica.

However, Langdon walked for a while with a heavy heart, feeling that something was wrong, and when he turned around, he found Lilica silently following behind him.

With a long sword hanging on her petite body, she followed Langdon step by step, looking a little pitiful for no reason.

But when Langdon saw this scene, he could only feel his mind explode-who is the poor one! ?

Originally, Langdon had been holding his breath, but now that there were no outsiders, he simply asked, "Are you trying to find a place where no one is around and kill me?"

In the current situation, as long as Lilica, who was escorted by the emperor, acted properly, he would have no way to deal with her, and if he killed her without measure, he would be even more helpless.

The only way to solve it is for him to act first and kill Lilica, so that his status as a duke will be useful. The emperor can't let him be a duke to pay for the knight's life.

But he can't beat Lilyka now, and the magician who can beat Lilyka will come to the school if he wants to improve his strength. He is in an endless loop, so he can only avoid it and leave.

"I don't want to kill you."

Lilica finally raised her head, her exquisite and beautiful face showed no expression, and her tone was not sincere, as if she didn't do anything in class just now, expressing caring words.

"You need to re-bandage now."

Langdon sneered: "Didn't you just want to kill me?"

"It's just a conditioned reflex."

Lilica ignored Langdon's posture of wanting to have a good conversation. With her hands behind her back, she casually stepped on the shadow with her long legs in mid-calf boots. There are faint traces of redness.

"...Just don't look at me."

Langdon frowned.

What kind of quirk is this, will it arouse her killing intent when looking at her during the battle?

No, it's more likely that it's just an excuse she made up casually - Lilica can even commit perjury, and lying should be commonplace for her.

"If you still have this attitude, I have nothing to say to you."

"Huh? Attitude?" Lilica took out a lollipop from her pocket and stuffed it into her mouth, and said vaguely, "I'm serious."

"...Forget it, if you really don't want to kill me, stay away from me in the future, lest I have a 'conditional reflex' to do something."

Lilica stopped suddenly, took out the candy in her mouth, and asked, "Langdon, do you hate me now?"

Langdon was incredulous: "...you did all these things, do you still expect me to like you?"

A cloud slowly drifted over Lilica's head, gradually enveloping her figure from light into shadow, covering her expression.

"No, I want you to hate me."

42. The Riddler Get Out of Gotham (4k words, two chapters in one)

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